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Fritz Sauckel
Sign in to saveGerman Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1894-1946)
Key facts
- Appointed by
- Adolf Hitler
- Preceded by
- Position created
- Succeeded by
- Position abolished
- Prime minister
- Willy Marschler
- 1935 1937
- Acting Reichsstatthalter of the Free State of Anhalt
- 1933 1945
- Member of the Greater German Reichstag
- 1929 1934
- Member of the Landtag of Thuringia
- Born
- ( 1894-10-27 ) 27 October 1894, Haßfurt , Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
- Died
- 16 October 1946 (1946-10-16) (aged 51), Nuremberg Prison , Bavaria, Allied-occupied Germany
- Cause of death
- Execution by hanging
- Party
- Nazi Party
- Spouse
- Elisabeth Wetzel
- Occupation
- Merchant sailor
- Criminal status
- Executed
- Convictions
- War crimes , Crimes against humanity
- Trial
- Nuremberg trials
- Criminal penalty
- Death
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Fritz
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Haßfurt
- Occupation
- politician
- Political party
- Nazi Party
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- International Military Tribunal
- Military rank
- Obergruppenführer
- Image
- Fritz Sauckel2.jpg
- Number of children
- 15
- Convicted of
- crime against humanity
- Represented by
- Robert Servatius
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- Fritz Sauckel
- date of birth
- 1894-10-27
- date of death
- 1946-10-16
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- Fritz Sauckel
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- assessment
- intelligence test
- allegiance
- Nazi Germany
- name in native language
- Fritz Sauckel
- facial hair
- toothbrush moustache
- P8168
- Lécera
- archives at
- German Federal Archives
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Encyclopedic overview
Ernst Friedrich Christoph Sauckel (27 October 1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal. As General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War, he oversaw the mobilization of forced labour for the benefit of the German war effort.
Born in Haßfurt in Bavaria, Sauckel worked as a seaman from a young age. During the First World War, he was interned in France as an enemy alien. He joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and established himself as a leading party organiser in Thuringia. He was appointed Gauleiter of Thuringia in 1927 and, following Hitler's appointment as chancellor, Reichsstatthalter in 1933; he would retain both positions until the end of the Nazi regime.
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